READING  LIST 

JUNIOR  HIGH  SCHOOL 


Compiled  by 

The  Iowa  Library  Commission 


In  Cooperation  With 

The  Iowa  Association  of  English  Teachers 


Published  by 
The  State  of  Iowa 
1921 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 
in  2017  with  funding  from 

University  of  Illinois  Urbana-Champaign  Alternates 


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0  2.7.  8*U 


BEADING  LIST— ^JUNIOR  HIGH  SCHOOL 


Seventh  and  Eighth  Grades 

FICTION 

Aanrud . Lisbeth  Longf rock 

Alcott . Little  Women 

Aicott . Old  Fashioned  Girl 

Altsheier . Young  Trailers 

Andersen . Stories 

Atkinson . :  .Greyfriars  Bobby 

Barrie . Peter  and  Wendy 

Bennett . Master  Skylark 

Brooks . Master  of  Stronghearts 

Bunyan . Pilgrim’s  Progress 

Burnett . Secret  Garden 

Carroll  . Alice  in  Wonderland 

Chaucer . Tales  of  the  Canterbury  Pilgrims;  ed. 

by  Darton 

Clemens . Huckleberry  Finn 

Clemens . Tom  Sawyer 

Defoe . Robinson  Crusoe 

Dickens . Christmas  Carol 

Dickens . Cricket  on  the  Hearth 

Dickens . Great  Expectations 

Dodge . Hans  Brinker 

French . Lance  of  Kanana 

Haines . Luck  of  the  Dudley  Grahams 

Hale . Man  Without  a  Country 

Harris . Nights  With  Uncle  Remus 

Harris . Uncle  Remus;  His  Songs  and  Sayings 

Hawthorne . Grandfather’s  Chair 

Hawthorne . Tanglewood  Tales 

Howells . . Boy’s  Town 

Hughes . Tom  Brown’s  School  Days 

Irving . Rip  Van  Winkle  and  Legend  of  Sleepy 

Hollow 

Jewett . Betty  Leicester 

Kipling . Captains  Courageous 

Kipling . Jungle  Book 

Lagerlof . Wonderful  Adventures  of  Nils 

Lamprey . In  the  Day  of  the  Guild 

La  Ramee . Dog  of  Flanders 

London . Call  of  the  Wild 

Masefield . Jim  Davis 

Meigs . Master  Simon’s  Garden 

Meigs . Pool  of  Stars 

Ollivant . Bob,  Son  of  Battle 

Parish . Man  With  the  Iron  Hand 

Pyle . Jack  Ballister’s  Fortunes 

Pyle . . Men  of  Iron 

Pyle . Merry  Adventures  of  Robin  Hood 

Quiller  Couch . Splendid  Spur 

Renninger . Story  of  Rustem 

Richards . Nellie’s  Silver  Mine 

Ruskin . King  of  the  Golden  River 

Saintine . ,Picciola 

Seton . Lives  of  the  Hunted 

Shaw . Castle  Blair 


4- 


Spyri . Heidi 

Stevenson . . . . Treasure  Island 

Stockton . Lady  or  the  Tiger 

Warner . Being  a  Boy 

Wiggin . Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm 

Wyss . Swiss  Family  Robinson 

Zollinger. . Widow  O’Callaghan’s  Boys 


Seventh  and  Eighth  Grades 

NON-FICTION 

Baldwin . Story  of  Siegfried 

Bishop . Panama,  Past  and  Present 

Boyssen . Boyhood  in  Norway 

Bryant . To  a  Waterfowl 

Browning . How  They  Brought  the  Good  News  From 

Ghent  to  Aix 

Bullen . Cruise  of  the  Cachalot 

Burroughs . Squirrels  and  Other  Fur-bearers 

Colum . Adventures  of  Odysseus  and  the  Tale  of 

Troy 

Custer . Boots  and  Saddles 

Dana . .Two  Years  Before  the  Mast 

DuChaillu . Land  of  the  Long  Night 

Eastman . Indian  Boyhood 

Fabre . Story  Book  of  Science 

Field . .Christmas  Tales  and  Christmas  Verse 

French . Story  of  Rolf  and  the  Viking’s  Bow 

Froissart . Chronicles 

Grenfell . Adrift  on  an  Ice  Pan 

Hale . New  England  Boyhood 

Hill . On  the  Trail  of  Washington 

Holland . Lafayette  We  Come 

Keller . Story  of  My  Life 

Lamb . Tales  From  Shakespeare 

Lanier . Boy’s  King  Arthur  (new  ed.) 

Lanier . Boy’s  Percy 

Lodge  and  Roosevelt . Hero  Tales  From  American  History 

Longfellow . Courtship  of  Miles  Standish 

Longfellow . Evangeline 

Mabie . Norse  Stories 

Meadowcroft . Boy’s  Life  of  Edison 

Mitton . Children’s  Book  of  Stars 

Moses . Louisa  May  Alcott 

Nicolay . Boy’s  Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln 

Olcott . Storytelling  Ballads 

Oliver . First  Steps  in  the  Enjoyment  of  Pictures 

Paine. . Boy’s  Mark  Twain 

Richards . Florence  Nightingale 

Roberts . Red  Feathers 

Sabin . Making  of  Iowa 

Seton . Wild  Animals  I  Have  Known 

Sharp . Watcher  in  the  Woods 

Swift . Gulliver’s  Travels 

Tappan . In  the  Days  of  Queen  Victoria 

Tomlinson . Places  Young  Americans  Want  to  Know 

Washington . Up  From  Slavery 

Wilmot-Buxton . Jean  d’Arc 


— 5 — 


Ninth  Grade 

FICTION 

A.ldrich . : _ Story  of  a  Bad  Boy 

Allen . Flute  and  Violin 

Andrews . Courage  of  the  Commonplace 

Andrews . Perfect  Tribute 

Bacheller . Dri  and  I 

Barrie . Little  Minister 

Bishop . Bob  Thorpe — Sky  Fighter 

Blackmore . Lorna  Doone 

Bunyan . Pilgrim’s  Progress 

Catherwood . Story  of  Tonty 

Clemens . Prince  and  the  Pauper 

Connor . Glengarry  School  Days 

Cooper . ’ . Deerslayer 

Cooper . Last  of  the  Mohicans 

Craddock . Prophet  of  the  Great  Smoky  Mountains 

Craik . John  Halifax,  Gentleman 

Davis . Victor  of  Salamis 

Dickens . Christmas  Stories 

Dickens . Oliver  Twist 

Doyle . Adventures  of  Sherlock  Holmes 

Eggleston . Hoosier  Schoolmaster 

Eliot . Silas  Marner 

Fox . Little  Shepherd  of  Kingdom  Come 

Fuller . Across  the  Campus 

Gates . Biography  of  a  Prairie  Girl 

Hawkins . Prisoner  of  Zenda 

Hawthorne . Twice  Told  Tales 

Heyliger . High  Benton 

Hough . Story  Of  a  Cowboy 

Howells . Rise  of  Silas  Lapham 

Hubbard . Message  to  Garcia 

Hughes . Tom  Brown’s  Schooldays 

Irving . Tales  of  a  Traveler 

Jackson . Ramona 

Jewett . Country  Doctor 

Kipling . Kim 

Kipling . Phantom  ’Rickshaw 

Knipe . A  Mayflower  Maid 

London . Tales  of  the  Fish  Patrol 

Lytton . Last  Days  of  Pompeii 

Marryat . Midshipman  Easy 

Martin . Emmy  Lou 

Martineau . Peasant  and  the  Prince 

Masefield . Jim  Davis 

Muir . Stickeen 

Paine . College  Years 

Poe . Best  Tales  from  Poe 

Rihbany . Hidden  Treasure  of  Rasmola 

Scott . Rob  Roy 

Seton . Biography  of  a  Grizzly 

Seton . Trail  of  the  Sandhill  Stag 

Sienkiewicz . In  Desert  and  Wilderness 

Smith . Caleb  West 

Snedecker . Coward  of  Thermopylae 

Stevenson . Black  Arrow 

Stevenson . Kidnapped 

Stevenson . Merry  Men 


— 6— 


Stockton . Rudder  Grange 

Tarbell . He  Knew  Lincoln 

Tarkington . Gentleman  from  Indiana 

Van  Dyke . Blue  Flower 

Van  Dyke . Story  of  the  Other  Wise  Man 

Verne . Round  the  World  In  Eighty  Days 

Wallace . Ben  Hur 

Waterloo . . . Story  of  Ab 

Weyman . House  of  the  Wolf 

White . Blazed  Trail 

Williams . Princeton  Stories 

Wister . Virginian 

Wilson . White  Indian  Boy 


Ninth  Grade 

NON-FICTION 

Antin . Promised  Land 

Baldwin . Sailing  the  Seas 

Bates . Ballad  Book 

Bishop . . .  .Story  of  the  Submarine 

Bond . Inventions  of  the  Great  War 

Burroughs . Wake  Robin 

Cather . Boyhood  Stories  of  Famous  Men 

Davis . The  West  From  a  Car  Window 

Demetrios . . . . When  I  Was  a  Boy  In  Greece 

Drinkwater . Abraham  Lincoln 

Dunbar . Lyrics  of  Sunshine  and  Shadow 

Dunsany . Plays  (at  least  2  of  them) 

Fabre . Secret  of  Everyday  Things 

Fabre . Social  Life  in  the  Insect  World 

Frank . Great  Authors  in  Their  Youth 

Franklin . Autobiography 

Gilbert . . More  Than  Conquerors 

Gilder . Lincoln,  The  Leader 

Hagedorn . Life  of  Roosevelt 

Hall . . . . .  High  Adventure 

Holland . Historic  Boyhoods 

Holland . Historic  Girlhoods 

Hudson . Book  of  a  Naturalist 

Ingersoll . Wit  of  the  Wild 

Longfellow . Tales  of  a  Wayside  Inn 

Lowell . Vision  of  Sir  Launfal 

Lummis . Some  Strange  Corners  of  Our  Country 

Moses . Charles  Dickens 

Nicolay . Boy’s  Life  of  Lafayette 

Moulton . Short  Stories 

Muir . Story  of  My  Boyhood  and  Youth 

Overton . Life  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson 

Palmer . Life  of  Alice  Freeman  Palmer 

Parkman . Heroes  of  Today 

Parkman . Heroines  of  Service 

Peabody . The  Piper  • 

Phillips . Ulysses 

Plutarch . Boys  and  Girls  Plutarch;  ed.  by  White 

Ragazin . Frithjof  and  Roland 

Ragazin . ^Siegfried  and  Beauwolf 

Riis . Making  an  American 

Roberts . Kindred  of  the  Wild 


— 7— 


Roberts . Watchers  of  the  Trails 

Roosevelt . Letters  to  His  Children 

Scott . Lady  of  the  Lake 

Scott . Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel 

Shakespeare . Midsummer  Night’s  Dream 

Sharp . Where  Rolls  the  Oregon 

Slusser . Stories  of  Luther  Burbank’s  Plant  School 

Steiner . Against  the  Current 

Tappan . In  the  Days  of  Queen  Elizabeth 

Wade . Light  Bringers 

Wade . Pilgrims  of  Today 

Wallace . Lure  of  the  Labrador  Wild 

Washington . Up  From  Slavery 

Whittier . Snowbound 

Young . Alaska  Days  with  John  Muir 

Zangwill . Melting  Pot 


